Twain always has something relevant to say.

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"The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -Mark Twain
A quick search of the interwebs turned up several instances of this quote on different sites, but no context. As such, I can't be certain whether it was intended solely in a literal sense, or if Clemens was using it as an example and a metaphor for a

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[angry_american]

Twain was one to stand in parlors and say interesting things. As he was a celebrity in his lifetime, these things ended up in the papers or repeated by people pretty often.

-FW